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Alternatives to TEN Framework

5 Voice & Messaging tools you could use instead. Each one shares a way to connect with TEN Framework and overlaps on what it does. Strongest match first.

TEN FrameworkAPI · CLI

Alternatives · 5

  1. Vapi

    API

    Voice AI platform for building production phone agents. Handles real-time STT, TTS, turn-taking, and LLM orchestration.…

    Verifiedby Vapi · Voice & Messaging · 5 skills · API Key

    Why Both offer API. In common: conversational, latency, real-time.

  2. LiveKit Agents

    API · CLI

    Builds production realtime voice and video AI agents with WebRTC transport, turn detection, and STT/LLM/TTS pipelines.…

    VerifiedOfficialby LiveKit · Voice & Messaging · 3 skills · API Key

    Why Both offer API and CLI. In common: real-time voice.

  3. Pipecat

    API

    Builds realtime voice and multimodal conversational agents in Python — orchestrates STT, LLM, and TTS pipelines with…

    Verifiedby Daily · Voice & Messaging · 3 skills · API Key

    Why Both offer API. In common: multimodal, real-time, voice.

  4. Cartesia

    API

    Delivers ultra-low-latency text-to-speech and speech-to-text through the Sonic model family, with a voice-agent…

    Verifiedby Cartesia · Voice & Messaging · 3 skills · API Key

    Why Both offer API. In common: latency, voice.

  5. Retell AI

    API

    Builds, tests, deploys, and monitors natural-sounding AI voice agents with ~600ms latency for scheduling, support, and…

    Verifiedby Retell AI · Voice & Messaging · API Key

    Why Both offer API. In common: real-time, voice.

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